Asking owners of hotels, clubs and community centres not to take any reservation, Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) yesterday imposed a ban on social gatherings until further notice to prevent the risk of spreading coronavirus.

Although doctors, nurses and health workers at port city hospitals are ready to provide treatment to coronavirus-infected persons, the healthcare centres are not yet well equipped to handle such patients.

Relatives, activists and supporters of councillor candidates contesting in Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) election have been participating in campaigns, defying instruction of home quarantine imposed by government in a bid to contain a possible coronavirus outbreak in the country.

For the first time, a group of archaeologists have unearthed a pyramid-shaped stupa in the country.

Dhaka University (DU) authorities yesterday asked its resident students to leave their dormitories by today [Friday] evening, amid fears of coronavirus outbreak in the country.

International Organization for Migration yesterday signed an agreement with Korea International Cooperation Agency (Koica) to launch a five-year project on capacity building and awareness-raising to combat human trafficking in Bangladesh.

The case filed over the rape of a Dhaka University student in the capital’s Kurmitola area on January 5 was transferred yesterday to the 7th Special Tribunal for Prevention of Women and Children Repression of Dhaka for its trial.

The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) will award grants worth USD 400,000 for women researchers and scientists, in commemoration of birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

The High Court yesterday directed the civil aviation and tourism ministry to hand over all overseas returnees to law enforcing agencies -- to keep them in quarantine for up to 14 days on their arrival, to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

Demands for locating and ensuring the safe return of journalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol continued yesterday, nine days after he went missing.

A special flight of Saudi Arabian Airlines yesterday brought back 406 Bangladeshis, who had been stranded in Saudi Arabia after the Gulf nation suspended air communication with different countries, including Bangladesh, to contain the spread of coronavirus.

A mobile court in Muktagacha upazila of Mymensingh yesterday sent a recent overseas returnee to mandatory quarantine, and fined his wife.

The Supreme Court administration has directed jail authorities not to produce under-trial prisoners before the lower courts during case proceedings till further order, as a precaution to coronavirus outbreak.

Today is the seventh death anniversary of former president Zillur Rahman, a veteran politician, Language Movement hero, an organiser of the Liberation War and one of the close associates of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

BNP yesterday demanded postponement of elections to Chattogram City Corporation and five other by-polls, in light of the spread of novel coronavirus in the country.

Four hours after stopping work, demanding of personal protective equipment (PPE), interns at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) have joined back.

Physicians and public health experts yesterday said the government’s inadequate measures have put many countrymen at risk of getting infected by Covid-19, amid its global outbreak.

Leaves of all staffers and officials engaged in the health sector have been cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak across the country, Health Minister Zahid Maleque says.

Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) has suspended all driving licence tests till March 31 due to the prevailing coronavirus situation.

All bus services between Rajshahi and Dhaka, Chattogram have been suspended for indefinite period to prevent the spread of coronavirus.